As far as I remember, the Linux devfs had some unfixable design flaws (race-conditions and more), so it was replaced with udev. And in fact, I never had a serious problem with udev, it just did its job (and the current stable version 171-r9 still does). Okay, I have to add that I don't use a separate /usr partition.

To me, udisks and upower seem to be a better, more modular approach. However, these need polkit, whose maintainers had the funny idea to use a (turing-) complete programming language for configuration. Having a complete JavaScript interpreter just for parsing the configuration of a security-critical component of the system seems to be questionable, at least._________________Unix philosophy: "Do one thing and do it well."systemd: "Do everything and do it wrong."

I now have a Raspberry Pi running Arch Linux and guess what is the biggest memory hog on it? The fscking systemd-journal with currently 21MB resident size. 21MB wasted for something I won't ever need! And no, Poettering does not want me to turn it off. Perfect example of what happens if you break Unix philosophy ("do one thing and do it well").

PS: Yes, I do know that 21MB is not much for a normal machine, but for the Pi it is.

RSS about 29 MB? For a (wannabe-)logger?! WTF?! What kind of insane shit is this?! Guess I'll have to set up a gentoo cross toolchain to get rid of the systemd insanity..._________________Unix philosophy: "Do one thing and do it well."systemd: "Do everything and do it wrong."

A blown fuse has already done so today... Anyway, there were days 32 MB RAM were enough to run a complete operating system - oh wait, systemd almost is one. It lacks a good editor, though. Maybe it's time to include vim?_________________Unix philosophy: "Do one thing and do it well."systemd: "Do everything and do it wrong."

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It is shocking that Technical Decision Makers within Red Hat support this. I get the junior staff member who just got a hammer and thinks everything is a nail. But people who know what they're doing? Wow. Sure makes me want to entrust my enterprise to RHEL / RH._________________lolgov. 'cause where we're going, you don't have civil liberties.